While he may have set himself impossibly lofty goals to start the season, he still managed to come within two wins of achieving them.
Ahead of the 2019-20 NBA season, Boston Celtics small forward Jayson Tatum went on record he would make his first All-Star team, score 20 points per game and take his team to the NBA Finals.
He not only made the 2020 All-Star team along with new teammate Kemba Walker, he made All-NBA as well, managed to score 23.4 points (and 7 rebounds and 3 assists) per game in his third season in the league.
Falling just short of his Finals goals as the Celtics succumbed to the Miami Heat in Game 6 of the 2020 Eastern Conference Finals, the Duke product quite nearly exceeded those goals on all counts.
With no Boston basketball scheduled for the foreseeable future and a 2020-21 season unlikely to tip off before January, we may have to make due with clips like the one embedded above for some time.
So watch the video if you want to see the best of Tatum’s plays in the East Finals while we wait for his next chapter to unfold.
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